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It's been awhile since I've done an update on my dood! Guinness is 10 months old now. I ran into another Labradoodle owner yesterday at a festival I was playing (Guinness was with me of course) and she mentioned that at 10 months she saw a staggering difference in her guy. Honestly, since the beginning of this month I swear he's gotten calmer. Instead of constantly running around entertaining himself, he seems to just want to sleep more. He's PERFECT in public, too. I've taken him to the Indy 500 parade, the Pride parade, and numerous festivals and concerts, and he's behaved amazingly.
Don't get me wrong, he still LOVES his daily romps and swims in the Indianapolis canal whenever he gets a chance! We've developed a routine of letting him pick out his own stick and playing fetch with him in the water. He's gotten amazing at diving in and retrieving in a flash. When he was even younger a few people told us we should try dock diving with him; his Lab Mom used to compete, so I'm sure he'd do just fine. Has anybody else tried dock diving with their doods? I know he'll do it, I'm just curious to see if he can actually get enough height and distance to enter some competitions down the road.
Here's Guinness with his buddy Vince (a stray Husky I was fostering for a couple weeks):
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And here he is with his newest (and only 2nd!) haircut. His beard was really matted, so they had to shave a lot of it off. It looks like he has a mustache!
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Don't get me wrong, he still LOVES his daily romps and swims in the Indianapolis canal whenever he gets a chance! We've developed a routine of letting him pick out his own stick and playing fetch with him in the water. He's gotten amazing at diving in and retrieving in a flash. When he was even younger a few people told us we should try dock diving with him; his Lab Mom used to compete, so I'm sure he'd do just fine. Has anybody else tried dock diving with their doods? I know he'll do it, I'm just curious to see if he can actually get enough height and distance to enter some competitions down the road.
Here's Guinness with his buddy Vince (a stray Husky I was fostering for a couple weeks):
And here he is with his newest (and only 2nd!) haircut. His beard was really matted, so they had to shave a lot of it off. It looks like he has a mustache!
